This is pretty cool — Alaska Airlines will be adding a flight to Hawaii out of the Seattle area’s second airport. This also represents Alaska’s first new route to Hawaii in over a decade.
Continue reading: Alaska Airlines Adds Paine Field To Honolulu Route
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I used to watch the huge airliners at Everett Paine Field as they were parked in various locations post assembly. The huge airliners take off from Everett all the time so this is a great place for plane spotting. The Boeing factory tour and museum is a must as you can watch them assemble the aircraft.
I love the beautiful interior this websites shows of the Alaskan Airlines interior upon the header. The Airbus upgrade looks so modern and fresh in the photo. Hopefully they will sub it to Paine Field on occasion to Hawaii.
Please bring back the Spokane to Everett route! We don’t like flying into SEA.
"Southwest and United no longer fly to Paine Field." Actually, Southwest never did. They announced they would fly to PAE, but canceled those plans before beginning service, and transferred the slots to AS.
While this is the first time Alaska will fly this route, they use to fly from Bellingham (BLI) to several Hawaii airports. BLI is just over an hour north of PAE, so there would be some overlap in passengers flying from these smaller northwest Washington airports (though BLI is often thought of as a YVR alternative).
Convenient? Yes. Adds to the drip drip drip of additional flights that will eventually make Paine Field a major airport that increasingly disrupts the lives of thousands of Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mill Creek, and Mukilteo residents? ABSOLUTELY YES!
Commercial flights at Paine Field was billed as a limited, low impact, "nobody will even notice" type of service. Anyone with any foresight knew that that was not true. The camel has poked it's nose under the tent and there is no stopping increasing flights, including air cargo flights.
Seasonally (winter) there's service between PAE and Tucson, just a wee bit more southeast than PHX 🙂
I know they flew the route last year, and a random check of one day this year indicates the flight is returning.
Oh, good grief. The number of passenger flights at PAE hasn't increased. They are capped and dwarfed by private aviation, and freight and Boeing-related flight movements.
What people have failed to mention is that parking at PAE is expensive. There are no low-cost private lots. There is no transit service at all. Rental cars are challenging. Uber rides are expensive. Unless you have someone dropping you off and picking you up, it will be expensive to use PAE for a week in Hawaii.
I wonder how they'd cater the food for first class passengers departing from PAE. I don't think there's any caterer around PAE area.. Will they serve the food from HNL?
PAE is a great small airport that deserves more flights. The added bonus of being able to spot all the Boeing planes getting assembled and tested and go to the flight museums nearby is great. At the same time, I'm wondering how this route will fare compared to their discontinued Bellingham to Honolulu flight which was fairly similar.
What a terrible airline. Flew with our high school marching band from Philly to Seattle then on to Hawaii. Surprised they didn't pull out cattle prongs to move us along. They threaten to through my off a flight after I mudder under my breath "What a crappy airline!"
A bunch of old planes with fancy graphics. God help you if your window shade is down. Find some other airline to the Island. Know your rights when flying them.
I would love it if we could fly to Mazatlan from Paine Field but if that isn't in the budget please give us better connectors through Los Angeles or Phoenix
This is hilarious because I live in that area. Every time I hear a Karen complain about the “commercial flights ruining the neighborhood” they are inevitably pointing to a newly assembled Boeing plane going for a test flight. The camel poking its nose under the tent isn’t flights, it’s the suburban development. Ask an old timer what the airport was like in the old days: It was an active navy base with military jets flying in and out at all hours of day and night.
Well, if Alaska's going to start 737 service from PAE, how about adding direct Chicago and Dallas service, to also have a better connection for East Coast destinations?